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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

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